The homelessness problem in Hawaiʻi is much bigger than you think and includes people you never imagined.
Officially, Hawaiʻi has about 6,500 homeless. A more realistic estimate? Say hello to 30,000 more.
The official method that states like Hawaiʻi use to count homeless severely undercounts. In Chicago the actual rate is six times higher. In Atlanta the more accurate count may be as high as 15 times larger than it would be using Hawaiʻi’s method.
Government has a history of denying homeless problems and then, when they became too obvious to ignore, defining homelessness in ways that minimize the number and refer to them as an out-group different from the rest of us normies…